Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reject the Iranian arms deals had succeeded in having "this baby strangled in its cradle." He cited a fundamental flaw in the effort to reach out to Iranian moderates. Said the Secretary: "I didn't think there were any moderates still alive in Iran." Astonishingly, Weinberger had to learn details of the Iran initiative from another country's intelligence reporting...
...benefit of the program is the opportunity to hear fresh views on the magazine's operation. Says Leah Shanks Gordon, administrative editor and the interns' supervisor: "Sometimes what they say is bruising, but the interns' presence gives us an opportunity to hear from some very bright people. We learn a lot from them." And we hope they too learn a lot from their experience...
...viewers are presented with the news and nothing more. After returning from two years in England, I was dismayed by American news broadcasts with the anchor popularity contests, the cutesy chitchat, the endless stream of "live from" reports that impart little substance. The U.S. networks could learn some valuable lessons from British TV news...
...dialectical theory of lapta: the pitchers are always ahead of the hitters, and vice versa. Marx's classic one-liner about lapta, "Nice right-wing deviationists finish last," ranks with Lenin's famous admonition about the Russian psyche: "Anyone who wishes to understand the Russian soul had better learn lapta...
...iron discipline. And then by her stiff-necked guardian, who lectured her on her father's improvidence and insisted on a budget for her 25 cents weekly allowance: 5 cents for school supplies, 5 cents for the church and 15 cents for savings. Not until years later did Simpson learn that her father had left her an ample bequest, that her guardian had not only hidden it but had dipped into it himself, and that he had gone to court to keep this spiritually starved child separated from her mother's side of the family...